The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-29
SOUTHERN eLEANINGs.

nef fnOtnef ana the Iai4Ure OF an uncle TO
| send for her. Her people live in Ar
kansas.
At recent trial of bloodhounds at the
convict camp at Friar's Point, Miss, a
negro under ten years. sentence was re
leased and told that he could have his
liberty if he escaped the dogs. The con-
vict was given three hours start, but the
dogs ran the poor fellow down before he
had gone twenty miles.
Mrs Griffin, of Haynesville, Ala, has a
''Lady Banksiaf roSebush in her flower
garden which has been in bloom for sev.
eral weeks, during which time it has new
er had less than 900 roses on it.
The business portion of North Middle
town, Bourbon County, KY, was almost
totally destroyed by fire a few days ago.
Loss, 5000; insurance only 50, 100.
Mr.. w. e. Burket, postmas ter at Pine
Mills Wood County, Tex. was arrested q
few davs ago, charged with delaying the
mail of VIM. Murphy.
A friendly fencing bout in New Or
leans club rooms a few evenings since re-
suited in John 7. Fernandez receiving ithe
point of the foil below, the eye, penetrating
the brain, from which death resulted
shortly afterward. Henry Bernard, who
inflicted the wound, was arrested.
George Bancroft, the historian, is max
ing a southern tour.
Captain Charles A. Allen of the Chatta-
nOoga (Tenn.) cadets has been arrested on
a charge of breach of trust, his pecula-
tions amounting to several hundred dol
lars of the company funds.
Jefferson Davis wrote letter express
ing regret at not being able to attend the
! ceremonies at the unveiling of the Cal
| houn monument at Charleston, S. G.
A few days ago Miss Halle, the twelve
year-old daughter of Mr.. G. w. Shackle-
ford, of Lexington, Miss, met with a ad
accident while visiting friends in Duran t.
| While passing a gun in the house she ac-
| cidentally struck it, causing an explosion
which killed her instantly.
Joe Shelton, a powerfully built negro,
confined in Jail at NicholasviIle, KY, for
| choking his ged mother to death about g
| year ago, killed a fellow prisoner named
Sam Million with bed slat few nights
| since. Million had been chiding Shelton
and the latter, slipping up behind him
! dealt him terrible blow, killing him in
stantly. Million was imprisoned for g
| murder committed last summer.
A terrible accident occurred a few days
ago on board the river steamer Delta,
which plies on Black river, near Whining G.
| ton, n. G. As the steamer was near Rocky
| Point, Fender County, her boiler explod-
ed and dealt destruction from one end OF
the craft to the other. So great was the
force of the explosion that the boiler was
actually blown clear astern. 1t tore the
upper works all to pieces and made ar
utter wreck of the boat Much frei CHI
was broken up or blown overheard. Fire
man Floyd was instantly killed, being
struck by a mass of iron. Frank An
drews and another employe were serious
| ly, probably fatally, hurt. ]. d. Kerr
owner of the boat, and its captain, had
his leg broken and suffered other in.
/ juries. Several other persons are slight
| ly hurt.
! John Roy and Will Carson. near neigh
bors, living in the vicinity of Ooltewah
Tenn, got into a dispute few days age
/ about piece of land which resulted in al
/ appeal to weapons, and both were killed
| one being shot through the heart and the
other through the brain.
/ A genuine case of leprosy is at present
| Interest," ting the physicians of Louisville
! KY. The patients name is John Has tin gs
J and he is said to have contracted the dis
ease in Honolulu about three years ago.
/ A feud, the result of family trouble, ter
/ minated at Colfax, Grant Parish, La,
/ few days ago by Walter and Augustus
/ ShacklefOrd shooting and killing n. G
/ M'Neeley a river pilot. The murderers
were both lodged in Jail
/ Fan Foley, Louisville (Ky.) negress
/ called at the house of Mrs. Jane Malone
Z 16W uayS ago anu during bQ6 VlS1b BFGdbCu
! Mrs. Malone to some drugge1 liquor, and
while the latter was in a stupor, pro
duced by her draught, Fan carted away
nearly every thing of value in the house.
She was arrested for grand larceny.
4 A cyclone Wis tied the neighborhood Of
/ Suffolk, Va, a few days ago, durin
which the house of John Wright, siz
miles north of Suffolk, was completely de
molshed. Mr.. Wright and his wife an6
( young sister and James Luke were in the
house at the time. Mrs. Wright and Mr.
! Luke were killed, the young girl fatally
injured and Mr.. Wright seriously hurt
Much other damage was done to property
along the pathway of the cyclone.
Four arrests have been made at Green
vile, S. c., in connection with the recen1
| Air Line railway robbery case. No rail
readers are involved. The robbers con
ceaIed themselves in freight cars some
/ distance from GreenvilIe and threw ou
the goods at the GreenviIle Fair Grounds
Stolen goods have been found IN stores il
Greenville and thro ughout the country.
VIM Brooks, formerly night watchma1
at the Algernon mills, in Augusta, Ga.
went to the mills few nights ago and de
manded entrance thereto of Adolph Leop
ard, the present watchman. A quarrel en-
sued, and Leopard shot Brooks dead
Brooks was intoxicated.
The Democratic caucus of the Florida
I Legislature adopted the two-thirds rule
! by which ffty-seven votes are required
for the nomination of a Senator Governor
Perry has forty-seven supporters and ex
Governor Bloxham fOrty-one, and as
! neither will give way to the other, there
seems to be chance for dark horse.
J. ii. Satterf eld, a prominent merchant
/ of Fort Smith, Ark, late of Rome, Ga
died a few days since of congestion, hav
ing been i'll but a short time. His remains
were taken to Cartersville, Ga, for burial
Mr.. John B. Smith, president of the
Louisville (Ky.) Bank of Commerce, and
one of the Sinking Fund Commissioners
of that city, died at his home few days
ago, after a lingering illness.
A handsome driving park is the lates-
project in the development of Birming
ham, Ala. They have good share of the
substantials there, and propose to have
some of the etceteras.
A fine bed of mari has cen found with
in the corporate limits of Mansfield, La.
Cotton Is rather backward.
William NJ. Miller, of De Kalb County
/ Ga. who was indicted for running a dis
| tillery, secured a transfer of his case Il
the Federal Court on a writ of habeas
corpus. The State judge has called the
attention of Governor Gordon to the mat
ter, and will claim jurisdiction of the of
fender.
The business portion of Crescent City
/ Fla. on Crescent Lake, was burned a few
nights ago. Pierce & Burton, Beach &
| Miller, general merchandise; Douglass &
Saekett's saloon, Crescent City Gazette of
fee. DR.. Sprague's drug store and stable
the Central Hotel and bakery were de
stroyed.
/ A number of Mormon elders are work
! ing North Carolina.
Avery G. Bates, Of Gilmer County
Ga, who escaped to Tennessee a couple o.
years ago after burning a neighbor's barr
with its valuable contents and being sem